All posts by Purnima Valiathan

An Instructional Design Checklist! Yes. Another One!

  Is your ID training addressing these Do’s and Don’ts? If yes, then how? Do you address it as an …

Needs Assessment – Part 3

Needs assessment is role-wise assessment of skill gaps between the current state and the desired state, and identifying the learning …

Needs Assessment – Part 2

  An organization wanted to train its entire sales team (junior, mid-level- and senior roles) on a new range of …

Needs Assessment – Part 1

  Traveling abroad at a short notice was mundane for me as an instructional designer. Most of the time it …

Gamifying Learning

  This trip to Germany, my third abroad, was to be a first in a different sort of way.  It …

Instructional Writing

    “I mean, how can she? My reviewer tells me I need to improve my writing skills. I was …

Feedback Styles in Online Courses

Here is a framework that you can use to design feedback for your online courses.  

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT): A Framework

Teaching and learning virtually in the synchronous mode places a higher cognitive load on the teacher and student as both …

Content Curation